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Q. What is a Bot?
A. The word is derived from 'robot', and refers to a computer program that gathers information or performs a service, usually on some regular, predetermined schedule. A bot (sometimes called an agent) typically searches the Internet, gathers information relevant to your query or interest, and presents it on a scheduled basis, hourly, daily, weekly, etc.

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  • AGENTS AND ROBOTS ON THE INTERNET

    1. AdHound - search the classifieds of hundreds of US newspapers daily with relevant ads emailed
    2. Airfare.com - find discount airline prices for selected destinations
    3. Amnesi - Amnesi helps Net users find Internet server names (DNS names).
    4. BDDBot - a web robot, search engine, and web server written entirely in Java
    5. Bargain Finder - your intelligent agent for comparison music CD shopping
    6. BotSpot - the spot for all bots and intelligent agents
    7. Bottom Dollar - finds the lowest prices on the web - fast! Just pick a category, type in a title, and start searching
    8. CareerSite Virtual Agent - search for positions which match skills and career objectives
    9. DealPilot - checks out prices, availability, plain shipping time and shipping costs of your book at over 20 online stores with over 20,000,000 pricing informations simultaneously
    10. Deja News - search by topic over 15,000 Usenet groups with results returned chronologically arranged
    11. FinanceWise - assists in accessing banking and finance information on the World Wide Web
    12. Firefly - access to personalized content, community, and services at sites using Firefly's software
    13. Golem - An Internet Resource Verifier for Mac OS
    14. healthfinder - a gateway consumer health and human services information web site from the US government.
    15. InfoBeat - personalized news delivered daily via email
    16. Japanese Search Engines - comprehensive index for searching, submitting, and navigating using Japanese search engines
    17. LawCrawler - searches for legal information on the Internet.
    18. Law Engine, The - on-line law sources available in a fast, well-organized, easy-to-use, single-page format
    19. Med Engine, The - online medical resource available in a fast, well organized, easy-to-use, single page format.
    20. Medical Search Search - Medical Intelligence At Your Fingertips
    21. MegaWeb - meta-search crawler that searches in individual or parallel in more than 30 search engines, search indexes, directories, software, people finders, Usenet news, dictionaries, domain names, movie and book databases.
    22. Movie Review Query Engine - searches for multiple movie reviews
    23. News Index - searches hundreds of online newspapers for any keywords, then show results for that day's news articles.
    24. Newzbot! - public Usenet resources for the masses
    25. Plangent - a software realizing intelligent agents which can work on the Java language system.
    26. PriceWatch - helps do comparison shopping for computer parts with prices ranked from less expensive to most expensive
    27. Reference.com - searches for information in mailing lists and Usenet groups with results emailed daily
    28. RoboBear - performs FAST automated searching, downloading and decoding of Usenet newsgroup articles.
    29. RoboShopper - automatically query online stores and then display the results in a convenient report, so you easily compare and make the best buying decision
    30. Search Engine Watch - information about many search engines, including comparisons.
    31. SearchPad - an intelligent way of searching for information on the Internet
    32. Virtual Secretary Project, The - user-model-based intelligent software agents, which could in most cases replace human secretarial tasks, based on modern mobile computing and computer network
    33. AdHound - search the classifieds of hundreds of US newspapers daily with relevant ads emailed
    34. WebFerret - freeware assists in location information on the Internet; searches can be narrowed bychoosing to match any keyword, match all keywords or by submitting the keywords as an exact phrase
    35. Webglimpse -search engine for finding information in a related web of pages.
    36. WebSnake -searchs and retrieves files from the World Wide Web
    37. WebMethods -automate the Web
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